In March this year, China's hot rolled narrow strip output amounted to 6.617 million mt, up 31.4 percent year on year, according to China's National Bureau of Statistics. In the first quarter, China's hot rolled narrow strip output totaled 16.838 million mt, up 13.7 percent year on year.
In March, China's cold rolled narrow strip output amounted to 1.106 million mt, up 13.0 percent year on year, while in the first three months the output volume totaled 2.778 million mt, up 7.5 percent year on year.